* Normal starter returned from injury/rest.1 Many of the 1953 Colts, including Taliaferro, were members of the 1952 Dallas Texans, but the NFL considers the 1952 Dallas Texans to be a separate and now-defunct franchise.2 Kerkorian spent the 1953 season playing rugby in Australia.3 Colts coach Don McCafferty refused to bench Unitas when when Colts general manager Joe Thomas asked him to do so in both Weeks 4 and 5. McCafferty was fired after Week 5.4 Hogeboom never went on strike.5 The late-season 1988 Colts occasionally used a wishbone formation using former college option QB Ricky Turner.6 Pro Football Reference mistakenly lists Trudeau as the starter for Week 3 and George as the starter for Week 8.7 Harbaugh broke his hand punching former Bills QB Jim Kelly, who had called Harbaugh a “baby” on a local Buffalo television show the previous week.

* Normal starter returned from injury/rest.1 Dickey broke and dislocated both his left hip and leg in the 1972 preseason.2 Pastorini shoved Houston Post reporter Dale Robertson through a locker-room door the Thursday before the 1979 AFC Championship Game.3 Stabler “retired” in July 1981 but returned to the Oilers when Nielsen was injured during preseason.

A potentially controversial sequence of events occurred late in the second half of the Packers-Falcons game when it appeared that two different players possibly threw punches that could’ve have warranted ejections.